A tea importer from San Francisco is said to have recently returned from a trip to the country and says “no contaminated tea has been reported,” according to World Tea News Editor Dan Bolton. The tea businessman also reported that the World Green Tea Association was being “very cautious about saying anything good or bad about the tea crop in any region” — essentially, it’s saying nothing at all.

The most interesting part of the article, to me anyway, was at the bottom of the article a section titled, “What to Say to Clients and Customers.” The official party lines include the observations that “No tea either freshly picked or packaged has been discovered to be contaminated by radioactive particles” and “Virtually all of Japan’s tea is grown at least 200 to 300 kilometers south of the radiation source.”